Sojourning
Recycles dryer sheets
- Joined
- Feb 5, 2015
- Messages
- 79
It's a true story 2017ish. It was a woman sitting next to me who did know me and my situation fairly well. The person asking the question did not know me. She was very quick with the answer as you say and she is someone who I respect and consider intelligent, so maybe that is part of the reason why I remember the remark and what it really meant.
It's like a school teacher I had in high school who told us, 'when you're green you're growing, when you're ripe you rot.' He was trying to get us to engage and get us to do so without fearing being wrong or looking stupid. You know how it was at that age, you don't want to look stupid in front of others so you don't want to put up your hand to answer a question. Many times when confronted with something new I've recalled that teacher and what he said.
Yeah, it's a similar pattern MBAustin that many seem to follow. I guess it's the old story of you have to go through it to get to where you are going. Like trying to tell kids they don't have to make the same mistakes as you did. I really just meant my orginal remarks as a kind of lighthearted comment on why can't we skip the intermediate steps in some things and save some time. I'm fine with everyone having to do it their own way.
They have a saying in the UK which is, 'you can't get there from here'. It refers to railway lines and someone asking for directions on what train to take. When there was no direct line, a local might say, 'you can't get there frome here', meaning you have to go through some intermediate point/s to get to your destination.
It's like a school teacher I had in high school who told us, 'when you're green you're growing, when you're ripe you rot.' He was trying to get us to engage and get us to do so without fearing being wrong or looking stupid. You know how it was at that age, you don't want to look stupid in front of others so you don't want to put up your hand to answer a question. Many times when confronted with something new I've recalled that teacher and what he said.
Yeah, it's a similar pattern MBAustin that many seem to follow. I guess it's the old story of you have to go through it to get to where you are going. Like trying to tell kids they don't have to make the same mistakes as you did. I really just meant my orginal remarks as a kind of lighthearted comment on why can't we skip the intermediate steps in some things and save some time. I'm fine with everyone having to do it their own way.
They have a saying in the UK which is, 'you can't get there from here'. It refers to railway lines and someone asking for directions on what train to take. When there was no direct line, a local might say, 'you can't get there frome here', meaning you have to go through some intermediate point/s to get to your destination.